Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Dutch museum will pay $240K to owners of Nazi-looted painting it won’t return
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Dutch museum will compensate the rightful owners of a Nazi-looted painting the government said it could keep because displaying it would benefit the public interest. Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle has agreed to give $240,000 to the descendants of Jewish Holocaust victims who under duress sold the 1635 painting “Christ and…
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Fast Forward Hasidic sailor does not have to shave his beard, federal judge rules
(JTA) — An Orthodox Jewish Navy sailor doesn’t have to shave his beard — at least until the end of the month — thanks to a federal judge. Petty Officer 3rd Class Edmund Di Liscia, who is serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in Asia, petitioned the U.S. District Court for the District…
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Fast Forward Macron calls for change in law after killer of French Jewish woman avoids trial
(JTA) — After a man who killed his Jewish neighbor successfully pled that he was unfit to stand trial because of what a court called a marijuana-induced psychotic episode, French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for a change in his country’s legal system. “Deciding to take narcotics and then ‘going mad’ should, not in my…
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Fast Forward This alleged Capitol rioter is dangerous for NJ Jews, prosecutors say
(JTA) — An alleged neo-Nazi sympathizer who is accused of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 is dangerous for Jews in his native New Jersey and should not be released from jail, prosecutors said. Timothy Hale-Cusanelli had asked to be released pending the outcome of his trial, which is ongoing. A federal judge ordered Hale-Cusanelli…
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Fast Forward Dutch soccer fans chant ‘Hamas, Jews to the gas’ before match against Ajax
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Fans of the Dutch soccer team Vitesse chanted “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas” at a fan rally before a scheduled match against Ajax, an Amsterdam-based team known for its history of Jewish supporters. Police began examining footage from the action on Wednesday night, which occurred in Arnhem, where Vitesse is based….
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Fast Forward 2 more historians quit Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment
(JTA) — Two more members quit the board of Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in protest after the government appointed a right-wing politician to serve on it. Following the resignation of Jewish philosopher Stanislaw Krajewski on Wednesday, historians Marek Lasota and Krystyna Oleksy on Thursday announced they would do the same. The culture ministry appointed Beata Szydlo,…
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Fast Forward Polish Jewish leader quits Auschwitz museum board over right-wing politician’s appointment
(JTA) — A Polish right-wing politician has been appointed to a board of the Auschwitz state museum, leading to a Jewish member’s resignation on Wednesday amid claims of politicization. Stanisław Krajewski said he would be leaving the International Auschwitz Council over the nomination of the Law and Justice party’s Beata Szydlo, Onet reported. Culture Minister…
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Fast Forward French top court upholds decision not to try Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor while high on marijuana
(JTA) — Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld rulings by lower tribunals that Kobili Traore cannot stand…
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